Why did We Hear 5 Years Ago That Online Orders Would Be Delivered By Drone, And This Is Nowhere Near Happening Yet?
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FAA regulations and economics. Delivery drones already work in countries like Rwanda, Ghana and Kenya from a company called Zipline. These countries are typically sparsely populated and to drive to these rural destinations takes days where a drone can deliver in 30 minutes.
In the US, a drone legally can not fly “out of site” of the person controlling the drone. Also the airspace in the US is much more busy and controlled (you would hate to have a 150 lbs drone crash with another plane). Right now regulators haven’t figured out how to fit the capabilities of these new drones into an already busy system.
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